Improvement in holding and filling bags



G. E. RANDALL.

I Bag Holder.

Patented June 13, 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

GEORGE RANDALL, OF YA HANK, new YORK.

IMPROVEYMENT IN HOLDING AND FILLING BAGS.

Specification forming part 'of Letters Patent No. 48,208, dated June 13, 1865 antedatcd June6, 1865.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. RANDALL, of Yaphank, in the county of Sufi'olk and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Holding and Filling Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in wl1ich Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

The object of my invention is to simplify the operation of holding and filling bags with grain or other material; and to this end it consists in a device which,with the assistance of one person, performs the usual work of two or more.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A is an upright frame, to which two arms, B B, are secured, by means of bolts or otherwise,in such manner that they can be adjusted higher and lower for bags of different depths. These arms contain the bearings for the two shafts O G, which are furnished with pointed pins 0 c, from which the bag (represented in blue color in Fig. 1) is suspended while. filling, The shaft O,which is nearest the frame A, is straight and is always arranged in the same bearings. It has at one end a curved arm,j, set in a downward direction. The shaft 0 is of cranked form between its hearings in the arms B B, and has at one end a curved arm, 0, substantially like the arms j of the shaft 0, but curved in the opposite direction. These arms j and c" are at corresponding ends of their shafts, so that both may operate in connection with a lever, D d, which works on a fulcrum-pin, d, which attaches it to one of the arms BB. The shaft 0' may be shifted from one to another of several pairs of bearings b I), provided in the arms B B for its reception, and thus brought at various distances from the shaft 0 to accommodate bags of various sizes. The bearings b in one arm B are open at the top to allow the shaft to be easily taken out and moved from one pair of hearings to another, and the shaft is secured in either of these bearings 12 by means of a sliding bolt, k, attached to the arm B. The lever D d", before mentioned, has a short arm, 01", the extremity of which is opposite the arm j of the roller 0, and a long arm, D,which comes under the arm 0 of the shaft 0. The arm D has notches in its upper side opposite to the several bearings 12 b for the reception of the end of the arm 0. Aspringgt, is applied to press down upon the short arm d,and so hold the long arm up to the arm 0.

the bag extended, as shown inFig. 1, by its action upon the arms j and c of the shafts O and O.

G is a platform, arrangcdon the opposite side of the upright frame A to that on which the arms B B are situated, and supported,when at rest, in a horizontal position by means of a vertical sliding rod, E, working in guides e 6 attached to the frame A, a shoulder on the said rod then bearing upon a portion of the said frame. Upon this platform is secured a measure, H, for measuring the grain or other substance with which the bags are to be filled.

F isa lever, attached to the frame A by a fulcrum-pin, f, and connected with the lower part of the rod E by a siot-and-pin connection, cf.

The operation is as follows: The rods 0 0 being relieved of lever D, by pressing down the latter and releasing the arm 0" from the notch 01 are allowed to turn, so as to lessen the dis tancebetween their respective pins 0 c, and thus enable the operator to easily fasten the ends of an empty bag to those pins. This po sition is shown in red lines in Fig.1. The rod 0 is next turned in its hearings to bring its crank up to a horizontal position, thereby extending the mouth of the bag and making the arm 0 press down the long arm of. lever 1;). The arm 0 then catches in one of the notches, d d d, and acts as a pawl to keep the crank of the rod 0 turned outward, the short arm of lever D at the same timepressing against the curved arm j at the end of the rod (J, and preventingitspinsccfrom turningdownward. By this operation the mouth of the bag is stretched is now done by forcing down lever F, which lifts up and turns over platform G by means out and held wide open, ready to be fill.ed,whicl1 This lever D cl serves to keep the mouth of l of the rod E, thereby emptying the contents ,of measure H into the suspended bag. 'When t, subtantially as herein described, for the pur pose of holding and extending open the mouth of the bag.

2. The lever F, bar E, platform G, and meas ure H, in combination with each other and with the devices for holding and extending the Y mouth of the bag, substantially as herein set forth.

GEO. E. RANDALL. Witnesses:

EDWD.L. GERARD, J. ROBERT LAWS- 

